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Musicians from the Concertgebouw Orchestra play a Children's Concert full of lies! The nose is a brand new performance about honesty, being different and friendship.

Nena lives in a country where your nose grows if you lie. Everyone in that country wants to have the longest nose, because a long nose is something to be proud of. One morning something terrible happens. Nena wakes up and her nose stays short. No matter what she tries, her nose no longer grows. She needs to solve this problem and fast! But how?

The nose is a children's concert full of lies. A performance about a big problem through a small nose, about honesty, about what it is like to be different ... and about friendship. This brand new performance was written by composer Renske Vrolijk and lyricist Sanne Schuhmacher and commissioned by the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and directed by Caecilia Thunnissen.

Prologue - Did you know that in a country, not even very far from here, there are people who are very much like us. There is almost no difference.

They have exactly the same eyes, exactly the same legs, the same ears, tongue and toes. They are almost the same, really. The only thing different about these people is their noses.

-Sanne Schuhmacher